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June 2021 Update

June 2021 Update

 

Hello Summer…

It’s summer in Florida and it is hot!  Kids are out of school and the pool is feeling just right!  We are working hard to provide events over the summer and have some speakers lined up for later this year.  Looking forward to getting back to in person events.  We had a lunch last month and planning a happy hour next week for all of those ready to get out and be social again.  

We have our date for SQL Saturday but we are still working on the logistics.  If you have a location that can be donated for our event, please let us know.  

We have officially started a volunteer group!  Thank you to those who have stepped up and set aside some time to help the group.  Volunteering is a selfless act that requires intention and dedication.  It’s not always easy with our schedules and we greatly appreciate those who have reached out!  This volunteer group will be focused on our lunch committee and our social media presence.  We can always use more volunteers so if you are interested, please let us know.

Meetups

  • Our next meetup is June 16th, 2021 for a happy hour in Winter Garden.  I will confirm the location after today.  Here is the link to RSVP for Meetup .  In order to have an accurate number for the venue, please update your rsvp if you will not make it.
  • July 2021 – Lunch Meetup in Kissimmee – TBD
  • Aug 2021 – virtual meetup – TBD

Red-Gate PASS

Red-Gate announces Data Community Summit on November 8-12, 2021 will be virtual and free!  If you would like to speak the call for speakers ends on 6/17/2021 at 11:59 PM PST.  Here are the links:

Submit Proposal:  https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/speakers

Register for event: https://passdatacommunitysummit.com/faq

Look for a Survey Soon…Again…Again

We finally had time to review a survey platform and gather the questions, please be on the look out for a link via meetup email very soon.  We swear this time! 😉

Pay It Forward

 

Our next pay it forward discussion/interview will be with Kendal VanDyke.  We will keep you posted on the date of this because you will not want to miss his story.
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Show us the data!

I really, really, really want to but can’t! See… pre-pandemic, we all used to meet, see and enjoy a social time on a quarterly basis. We would sit and enjoy dinner, talk about families, work, etc. We could read body language data. We could see the smiles on your faces. We could feel real joy and know everyone was helping each other. Then COVID hits and we are all immediately thrown into the introvert mental state, forcibly. What? I have to talk on camera? If it was hard to show up before, it made it even more difficult to show up virtually. I can honestly say that our group has definitely changed over the course of the last year. We are looking forward to the vaccine numbers to rise, so life can get back to normal!

We are planning for the future goals of our group and we want to gather data to show what works best for you and for us! We want to continue to provide value to the community, grow our membership, and help others.

We did some research on some survey companies and found the best fit for us is www.sogosurvey.com. They have a non-profit option, which is great for our group! The questions were really easy to set up, edit, and move around and hope to see lots of great data to report back to you all!

Please be on the lookout for the survey!

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Summary of the Lunch Meetup on January 20, 2019

We had 17 register and 8 attend our first lunch meetup of the year at Fuzzy’s Tacos. It was fun and we had some great conversations! Note for next time that we need a “SQLOrlando” sign for the table, though we found each other without issue.

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Summary of the December 2018 Meetup

We had 44 RSVP and 19 attend our December meeting. Franklin Yamamoto presented on performance tuning (and sponsored the meeting on behalf of SQLGrease.com) and William Durkin did a remote presentation on DBATools.io. We changed it up from our usual pizza and had a full holiday meal of turkey and stuffing. 

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SQLOrlando Lunch in Lake Mary on February 12, 2019

We’ve scheduled a second lunch for 2019, this one in Lake Mary on February 12. More details at https://www.meetup.com/SQLOrlando/events/256866726/.

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First SQLOrlando Lunch Scheduled For January 20, 2018

We’re starting the new year with a informal lunch in downtown Orlando at Fuzzys Tacos. More details at https://www.meetup.com/SQLOrlando/events/256671739/.

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Next SQLOrlando Meetup is December 5, 2018

Our final meetup of 2018 will be on December 5. The meeting will be a combination of a technical presentation (TBA!) and an informal holiday dinner. Details on Meetup at https://www.meetup.com/SQLOrlando/events/254916787/.

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SQLOrlando Meetup on Sep 20, 2018

We had our second meetup of the year on September 20th. Dale Sullenberger delivered a great presentation on temporal tables. Quest was our sponsor (thanks for the food!) and Dale was also able to give a great demo of Spotlight as he currently uses it at work.

We tried a different format this time, a lot more conversation and only one technical topic instead of two. Feedback from attendees was that they preferred this format – more interaction. We’ll continue to experiment with formats going forward, but making time for relationship building remains a key goal of our meetups.

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First SQLOrlando Meetup

On May 23 we held our first meetup in downtown Orlando. Kendal Van Dyke from Microsoft and Tom Staab from Amazon gave presentations on SQL Server in the cloud. We had 59 register and 28 attend, pretty good for a new location. Sponsorship was provided by Quest Software and SNI Technology.

Our next downtown meetup is tentatively planned for early August. Join the meetup group to get news about all SQL events in the Orlando area.